I bet the salted prawn on a jighead under a float would work great here over shallow weed beds like at Coronet. I was also thinking about the egg loop knot. I never hear of it being used here, but it is a must over there to hold a blob of salmon eggs (skein) onto a hook. I wondered whether it could ...

I just returned from my annual trip to Oregon USA to visit our son and try to get Chinook salmon. I didn't get one (again) but I did learn about shad fishing in the Umpqua River, which probably has me hooked now. The shad return from ocean in May-July to spawn and can be caught from the bank using a...

Hi, I hadn't seen instructions elsewhere so I thought I would post what I learned and ending up doing. Problem was that I noticed one of the rudder steering lines was 50% severed where it wound around the turning knob. It turned out that a piece of shell was stuck in the groove of the knob and so ov...